On Wed, 2017-09-06 at 11:08 +0200, Thomas Meyer wrote:> On Tue, Sep 05, 2017 at 02:22:05PM -0700, David Miller wrote:> > nothing prevented you from CC:'ing the maintainer,> > Jeff Kirscher.[]> That's the other condition in my script. I only send to the role> "maintainer" from the output of get_maintainer.pl. But Mr Jeff> Kirscher is only listed as supporter...

Supporter means he gets paid to look after thatsubsystem so he is something other than a volunteer.

from MAINTAINERS: S: Status, one of the following: Supported: Someone is actually paid to look after this. Maintained: Someone actually looks after it. Odd Fixes: It has a maintainer but they don't have time to do much other than throw the odd patch in. See below.. Orphan: No current maintainer [but maybe you could take the role as you write your new code]. Obsolete: Old code. Something tagged obsolete generally means it has been replaced by a better system and you should be using that.